MOM’S LAST RESORT - Vice Magazine

MOM’S LAST RESORT - Vice Magazine: "Just over two years ago a story that put a human face on this statistical plague made national headlines. Ellen Pakkies, a Lavender Hill mother whose 20 year-old son Abie exemplified the zombified, kleptomaniac ‘tik monsters’ that prowl the streets of Lavender Hill, had tried everything she could think of to get him off the junk. But after more than six years of living hell, she decided she could take no more. On a cold morning in September 2007 she tied a rope around Abie’s neck, and strangled him to death."?THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A "CELEBRITY" JUNKIE AND AN ORDINARY JUNKIE?